lixivial, a. (and n.) Now rare.
(lɪkˈsɪvɪəl)
[f. L. lixīvi-um lye + -al1. Cf. F. lixiviel.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to lixivium or lye; obtained by lixiviation. † Hence formerly used for: Alkaline; sometimes in narrower sense as the distinctive epithet of potash.
| 1650 Charleton Van Helmont's Ternary of Paradoxes Proleg. D, A Lixivial Tincture, or Alchahal. 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶139 Pot-herbs..for the most part have a lixiviall volatile salt. 1675 Phil. Trans. X. 414 All kinds of Alcaly's whether lixivial or alcalisate, fixt or volatile. 1676 Hodgson ibid. XI. 765 The Lixivial salt I used, was only Potashes dissolved in Spring-water. 1684–5 Boyle Min. Waters 26 Of the tast of the Mineral Water, as Acid, Ferruginous, Vitriolate, Lixivial, Sulphureous, &c. 1689 Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. iv. 13 The swelling..was discussed by a lixivial Fomentation. 1731 Arbuthnot Aliments i. (1735) 14 The common Symptoms of the Excretion of the Bile being vitiated, are..a lixivial Urine [etc.]. 1742 H. Baker Microsc. ii. xviii. 171 This Distemper..requires lixivial Washes. 1797 Beckford Pop. Tales Germans I. 163 Its neighbour [sc. stream] at Carlsbad..announces its entrance into the world by hot lixivial fumes. 1800 W. Saunders Min. Waters 343 Carbonated soda..gives the lixivial taste. |
† B. n. A lixivium, an alkali. Obs.
| 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iv. 129 An Ulcer is an effect of an acid, not of a lixivial. 1698 Phil. Trans. XX. 199 A Medicine..put into a very strong Lixivial. |